hi everyone welcome to the show i need a new
mallet a carving mall at this time i think and i think there's probably one in here uh i'm gonna
try and do a lead insert that's the plan at the moment anyway although things change everybody
seems to do a mallet making video these days so i thought i'd do one i'd
like a carving mallet anyway so we'll see how it goes i will try and do a lead
insert in this this is an idea of a design from andy phillip actually he's done one i
think with a molten lead filling as well we'll see how we go right let's get this round okay time for the handle this is a bit of
ash straightest grain i could find. Face mask on! probably don't even need glue but i'm
gonna anyway knowing my luck at the moment if you're liking the video please
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helps the channel with the uh old algorithm yes that so far still go wrong we'll pull molten
lead into it yet that should be interesting now i've got a funny feeling my tail
stock is going to be struggling i don't know well what do you know i
thought i was going to have a problem there i kind of like to buy the bed
extension for this lathe but they want about £200 for it! all right i'm going to sand it and then
i'll bring you back to put some finish on and then i need to weigh it and
find out how much lead needs to go in and then we'll do that bit time
to put some sanding sealer on it i nearly always forget at some
point to cover the lathe bed always cover your lathe bed this
stuff just is horrible to cast iron doesn't like it at all i've done
a few things in sapelia and ash if you have a look through my videos you'll
see some other composite kind of things the the two do go together ever so well i'm going to take that off and i'm going
to weigh it so then work out how much lead we need and then try and guess how big the
hole's got to be that could be quite entertaining right well it comes in at 530 grams and i'm gonna make this up to an 850 gram mallet
which means it's probably only quite a bit so let's uh go and weigh out some lead and see what
happens so we need let's say 350 grams of lead right now we need to melt it now this has
to be done in a very well ventilated area this is horrifically dangerous stuff
so don't try doing this unless you're absolutely confident i'm going to rig up a fume
extractor and then we're going to melt the lead oh before i do that i probably ought to drill
a hole so how much volume does this take out so this is a 43 millimeter pot and i reckon it's probably going to be once
it's melted 20 smaller so i'm going to do a hole 35 millimeters deep by 40 wide all right
well i drilled a small hole in the end but it's not big enough so i need to hollow
it out a little bit further hollowing tool i put it in the steady i made
because frankly last time i did this the thing flew out and landed on the
floor so hopefully this will stop it hopefully i'll do i've put a little ridge inside there so that hopefully that'll
stop the lead from popping out thanks for watching everybody please
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